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    Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads - 10 hour(s) ago

    In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy, including impeding access to lifesaving vaccines and putting US families at risk of dangerous and…

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    Dr. Noc, PhD (@dr.noc) • Instagram reel - 1 day(s) ago

    104K likes, 3,205 comments – dr.noc on February 23, 2025: “Bro’s Misinformation Tier List is starting to get pretty full: Kennedy is wrong here in three ways: 1) If the flu shot was causing “pathogenic priming”, it would make people get MORE SEVERE cases of influenza. Instead, reams of clinical data show that getting the flu shot DECREASES your risk of flu-related hospitalization, ICU admission, or death … as you would expect. 2) Even if the flu shot did cause pathogenic priming (which is actually called antibody-dependent enhancement in the scientific literature, by the way, which tells you that Kennedy’s opinions are informed by spheres of misinformation, not scientific papers), that would only affect future flu severity, not other viruses. 3) Clinical data from the exact paper that Kennedy cites contradict his point. He said that getting a flu shot damages your immune system, which increases risk for other infections, but the paper that he cited showed no risk in overall risk for

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